CBD2 :: WANDERER :: AVERY DE MUROS

Even when she walks on dry twigs they don't snap, because her body is so light that it's almost as if she isn't touching the ground at all. Max tells her she has to eat, that she knows what it's like to hurt and neglecting food won't change it, but Avery replies that she doesn't understand. Avery likes the way her skin is so thin she can see the bird cage of her chest. She likes to be reminded of the frail beat that flutters there. She knows that one day, she'll find a key that fits and press it to her chest (the way she pressed the knife down into the chest of her last master) and her hummingbird heart will fly away and leave its pale body behind. Until then, though, she'll sit in trees and sing, and tiptoe away in the night to explore, playing baby for the rest of her misfit family of wandering wild things.